We work hard in P1 to use our sounds to help us with our writing. We especially enjoy sharing our news after the weekend. Here are some of our weekend diaries. We write these on our own. If we are unsure of how to spell a word we use Fred talk to help us to break the word up into sounds. Mrs Macdonald is very proud of our writing and how hard we all try.
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Telling the time in P1b.
We are now learning to tell the time in our class. Harry told us all about the famous clock in London, Big Ben. He has a picture of this on his I pad ! We spoke about the clocks and watches that we have in our house. Some of us have lots of clocks ! We learnt that time never stops, it always keeps going. Chloe showed us her beautiful watch that she had on today. It has twelve numbers on it. We learnt that the special word for a clock or watch with twelve numbers – ANALOGUE. We played time games in our groups. We got to move the hands of the clock round, this was fun ! We are already very good at showing o’clock times. Well done everyone ! Tomorrow, we will make our own clocks and play more clock games.
Fairy tale Fun in P1b.
We started to read the famous fairy tale , ‘Puss in Boots’ today .The friendly dragon left us this in our class to read. Some of us already knew the story , Finn said that he had seen the movie. We heard all about the antics of Puss . He spoke in the story and that got us thinking, wouldn’t it be great if animals could really talk ?
I promised the boys and girls that I would check on my pussy cats when I got home and post a picture of one of the cats. As suspected, they were all fast asleep when I arrived home. Maybe they have been on their own adventures today whilst I have been at school ! We will finish reading ‘Puss in Boots’ tomorrow.
See you all tomorrow,
Mrs Macdonald.
Beanstalk update!
This morning we noticed our beanstalks are starting to sprout! Good news Primary 1, you must have been taking great care of them.
Miss Toner
Fairytale Friday
The primary 7 children from Mrs Bell’s class came to P1 to read to us! Primary 7 are very responsible and kind to us. We heard some fantastic fairytale stories.
Miss Toner
Magical measurement!
Primary 1 have been measuring capacity/volume. We like to estimate and experiment!
Keep up the good work.
Miss Toner
More Wonderful Work !
We really enjoy working together with our shoulder partners, in groups and at home with our mummies and daddies. Here are some lovely photographs of us working together. We have also included photos of our puppets. We worked really hard at home with the help of our mummies and daddies to create these. These looked wonderful in our class.
Well done everyone !
V.I.P.s (Very important people/predators in P1b).
We have had lots of V.I.Ps visiting P1b. We have had one of our mummies, one of our daddies and another teacher coming into class to show us their favourite toy. We have even had a visit from beautiful owls when we were learning about ‘Light and Dark’. We would like to say a big thank you to all of our visitors.
Wonderful Work !
We work very hard in P1b for Mrs Macdonald. Here are some snaps of us learning outdoors, working in groups and building our robots.
Well done boys and girls.
P1 and P2 Scoot and Skip!
Primaries 1 and 2 had great fun raising money for the Lenten Appeal today! They enjoyed taking part in their sponsored Scoot and Skip!
Fun in P1b !
We have lots of fun working and playing together in P1b ! Here are a few pictures of some of us, taken during golden time. We get golden time as a reward for following our charter and for working hard. Mrs Macdonald is very proud of us.
Classroom Beanstalk!
Primary 1 have been working very hard on their Fairyland topic. Our magic beans are taking a long time to grow, so we decided to make one from all sorts of materials. We think Jack will be saved a lot quicker this way!
Well done everyone.
Miss Toner
World Book Day
Happy World Book Day 2015, from Primary 1!
Little Red Riding Hood x2! (Mirin and Emilie)
Harry Potter x2, Ron and Hermione! (Leon, Connor, Charlie and Hannah)
Spidermen! (Leo, Ciaran and Justin)
Belle, Elsa and Cinderella! (Bella-Rose, Emily and Christy)
Pirates! (Kacper and Alexander)
Brave knights! (Lucas and Tomasz)
Magical fairy and cat! (Poppy and Paula)
Jack, Goldilocks and the dragon from Fairyland! (Sam, Cerys and Matthew)
Olaf, Woody and Wolverine (Phoebe, Max and Cameron)
D-mail!
The dragon has left us a D-Mail postbox (dragon mail). We wrote some beautiful letters to the dragon!
Well done Primary 1.
Miss Toner
Growing beanstalks!
Primary 1 have been so busy today! The whole school took part in a ‘no pen day!’ It was so exciting and it gave us the opportunity to work on our Fairyland. We decided to plant our own ‘magic beans’. Hopefully beanstalks will grow and we will be able to rescue Jack from the giants!
Keep up the good work.
Miss Toner
The dragon has left footprints!
Primary 1 received a letter from a very sad, sad dragon. He needs help! Fairyland is gone and the dragon and his friends have nowhere to live anymore. Jack doesn’t have his beanstalk, Miss Muffet has lost her tuffet and the three bears have lost their cottage! The dragon has asked Primary 1 to help bring back Fairyland…
Today we found dragon footprints in our classroom! They belong to the dragon and his family. We decided to measure these footprints to find out what size the dragon is.
Well done Primary 1. Keep working hard!
Miss Toner
Primary 1 + 2 Winter Ready Activities
Snow Days
Here are some handy hints of things to do to keep yourself busy in case of snowy conditions.
Maths Ideas
¶ Can you build a snowman and measure its height?
¶ Continue to practise addition and subtraction facts to 10 and 20.
¶ Can you spot any Christmas patterns and continue them?
Literacy Ideas
¶ Can you write an acrostic winter/snow poem? (P2)
¶ Can you write CVC words in the snow?
¶ Can you write a snow themed story?
¶ How many words can you make from ‘Winter Wonderland’?
Science
¶ Can you measure the length of time it takes to freeze a cup of water? How long does it take to thaw?
Art
¶ Can you create a snowy picture?
Useful Websites:
Twit twoo in Primary 1 & 2
Primaries 1 and 2 have been enjoying reading the story ‘The owl who was afraid of the dark’ by Jill Tomlinson. We have been learning about owls and other nocturnal animals, and have also been looking at day and night. Yesterday we had a visit from Owl Magic who brought 9 different owls with them for us to look at, learn about and handle.
We learned lots of new things about owls:
I learned that owls eat rats, mice and frogs. – Megan H
We now know that owls have 2 stomachs. One is for fur and bones and the other is for food to give them energy. – Nia & Milo M.
Owls bring up the fur and bones through their beak and this is called a pellet. – Lilya & Natan
I learned that some owls have yellow eyes and they are daytime owls, some have orange eyes and they come out at dawn and dusk, and others have black eyes and they come out at night. – Adil
Most of us enjoyed handling the owls and we all had the chance to stroke a Barn Owl called Cuddles. Mrs Renshaw was so brave as she held an Eagle Owl called Apollo.
Scottish Storytelling Week
Primary 2a and 2/1 visited Diane at Broxburn library today for Scottish Storytelling Week. She dressed up as Hamish the Highland Cow and read us two Scottish picture books.
She even let us try on her Highland cow hat! We had a great time!
L’enorme crocodile
Primaries 2 and 2/1 are enjoying listening to and studying the book ‘The Enormous Crocodile’ by Roald Dahl. They have enjoyed meeting some character’s including ‘Notsobig one’ and ‘Humpy Rumpy the hippopotamus’. Lilya brought the story in French and Mrs Dymock and Mrs Renshaw had a go at reading a page, however the children agreed that they should stick to reading the English version.
Lenten Appeal.
Primary 1 and Primary 2, 2/1 would like to thank everyone for their baking donations and their generosity. We raised over £120 on the day!
